What I wanted was something lightweight and flexible, a simple way to carry and maintain my tasks around on a USB stick.
The program needed to be capable of running on different platforms and must not depend on any data format or any web connection.

yaGTD incorporates major features from Allen's Getting Things Done philosophy and notion of urgency and importance preached by Stephen Covey (cf Seven Habits of Highly Effective People book).

To resume, if you are comfortable at the command line a simple plain text is an age-old but perfect method for tracking your stuff, and yaGTD can help you to manage efficiently this file.

yaGTD software is released under the GPL so anyone can try it and make their own modifications (see recipe #297 to know how to contribute).

After several months of inactivity, new functionalities was added:
- Modulate priority calculation when due date is overdue or when
status !someday is applied (task #6861).
- By default set urgency of new tasks to current month.
- Set the Due (target) date in +/- days (task #6585).
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